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“Recently we learned that the Department of Justice will fine Pfizer $2.3 billion in civil and criminal penalties for its illegal marketing of the drugs Bextra, Zyvox, Geodon and Lyrica. This is not only the largest penalty ever levied against ...

“Southfield attorney Geoffrey Fieger, who last year was found not guilty of criminal campaign finance and obstruction of justice offenses, asked a federal judge Wednesday to take the extraordinary step of erasing from the record the fact that he was ...

“Dueling has become less common over the past couple centuries. Likewise, the concern about prizefights,” reports the Associated Press. “Both those activities, along with taking a women against her will and forcing her to marry, would no longer be specifically ...

“A federal judge Tuesday refused to block the release of a 2007 inspection report on the Ambassador Bridge,” according to a story in the the Detroit News. “The Federal Highway Administration released the report to U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Dearborn, ...

“Abdul Ahad and Mumtahina Chowdhury, parents of three from Hamtramck, face deportation because their former attorney didn’t file paperwork on time which would have allowed Ahad to continue pursuing political asylum,” reports Fox 2 Detroit. “Instead, the family and their ...

“A Saginaw city councilman is pursuing policy that makes parents more accountable for their children including a provision that could get a child’s guardian in trouble for not approaching police about their youth’s criminal activities,” according to the Saginaw News. ...

“The trial of a Warren man charged in the murder of his brother and sister-in-law in their Oceola Township home last year has been put on hold,” reports WHMI. “Jury selection was scheduled to begin this morning for 63-year-old Jerome ...

Crain’s Detroit Business is reporting that “Lawrence Charfoos of Detroit-based Charfoos & Christensen P.C. has moved to join retired Wayne County Chief Circuit Judge William Giovan and immigration attorney Robert Birach to open Charfoos, Giovan & Birach L.L.P. in the ...